There is still no date for final clearance of the oil site at the centre of a Supreme Court landmark judgement issued nine months ago.

October 2024 saw the lowest daily production rate for UK onshore oil since the oil leak at Wytch Farm 18 months earlier.

The volume of UK onshore gas fell nearly 4.5% in January 2025, compared with the month before. This was the lowest monthly volume since September 2024 and mainly because a fall in production at ...

UK onshore gas volumes and daily production rose in August 2024, with volume reaching the highest level for four months. This was mainly because of increased production at the leading onshore gas ...

Cuadrilla statement said the rig is expected to arrive towards the end of February. It also said: “Cuadrilla plans to move equipment onto the Preston New Road site in the second half of February to ...

The industry regulator gave Cuadrilla more time to plug and abandon its shale gas wells at Preston New Road in Lancashire, DrillOrDrop has discovered. Decommissioning work at Cuadrilla’s Preston New ...

The UK’s first formal assessment of carbon emissions from burning onshore oil has been criticised as “flawed”, “misleading” and “unlawful”. River Bain near Egdon’s proposed oil production site at ...

Planners are supporting proposals to tanker wastewater from oil wells in southern England to inject into site in a Surrey village to boost production. Brockham oil site, 2022. Photo: used with the ...

2024 UK onshore oil production fell for the 11 th consecutive year to the lowest level for 37 years, according to official data published this week. Onshore dry gas production in the UK was also down: ...

The operators of a mothballed well site in an East Yorkshire village have been accused of apparently “misusing the planning system for their own benefit”. Operations at West Newton B in 2 July 2021.

A campaigner who brought a legal challenge against oil production plans in Lincolnshire, was escorted out of an energy conference in the county this morning.

Six Just Stop Oil protesters, including the group’s co-founder, had their prison sentences reduced by the Court of Appeal this morning. Roger Hallam and 15 other activists had been jailed last year ...